The Structure and content of this Wiki

This section is all about how to improve this wiki.

The initial content for this wiki comes from the database of guides, reports, case studies, and policy documents written by the Landworkers' Alliance team. These documents are all available in either PDF form, or as paper documents. The wiki pages that are derived from these documents can be navigated by the contents of these documents from this LWA Publications page. The work that has gone into building this wiki was paid for by the Friends Provident Foundation through a project; developing farmer led innovation and skills for direct sales. 

Most people are familiar with how useful Wikipedia is, and have a rough idea of how it works. The question is, why does Wikipedia work? An enterprise wiki is a website that uses wiki software to organize information within a company. 

Jobs
To start rolling the snowball down the hill, most of the work i have done so far has involved pasting and reformatting text from other sources, mostly LWA Publications. If you are the author of any of the content on this website, and you do not want your writing to be released under a creative commons license, you can either create an account and take the text down, or send a request for me to do so. If you find text that has not been formatted, you can follow the link to the original, and look at a page that has been formatted to see the appropriate syntax. Sorting out the references and external links is also high on my to do list.

I intend to focus on vegetables, as that is my area of expertise. A technical issue that I am not sure how best to resolve is the submission of farm business data. Once data is formatted into a wikitable, it will be easy for users to copy and paste it into a spreadsheet for their own business needs. However, if a user wants to submit their own farm data, they have to learn the wikimedia markup language for building tables (its not very complicated, but it will be a barrier) and there is no automatic way to generate the average and range from this data. I believe this problem could be solved with some kind of Wikimedia extension, but my knowledge is limited.

Embedding Videos
To embed a video on a wiki page it must be on a video hosting website, such as youtube or vimeo. Click "edit source" on the page you wish to embed the video, then paste the following piece of code into the document where you would like your video to appear;

{#ev:||1000}}

between '{{#ev:' and the first '|', type the name of the video hosting service (eg; youtube, vimeo, etc.) then type the video id in between the two '|' characters. The video id is the sting of characters at the end of the url. For example, if the url for the video you want to embed where;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xvlP5vW2BU

the video id would be;

1xvlP5vW2BU

The number at the end of the code is the width of the video, in pixels. You can change this number to change the size of the video on the wiki page.

There are additional options, that you can learn from this tutorial.

Spreadsheets
To embed a google docs spreadsheet in a wiki page, select 'edit source' then copy and paste the following code at the location in the document where you would like the spreadsheet to appear;



The number is the height in pixels, which you can change.

Open the google sheet. Click 'share', then set to 'anyone with the link can view' and 'copy link'. Then paste the link in between '><' and delete all the link text except the google sheet id. The sheet id is a string of characters in the middle of the url in between two '/'. For example, if the url read; https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1l2sRykFLhPaMoHGzxnaJrpnZomVqLYAqvBwagV324aE/edit?usp=sharing

the sheet id would be;1l2sRykFLhPaMoHGzxnaJrpnZomVqLYAqvBwagV324aE

To learn more about embedding google sheets, you can read this tutorial.

Here are some links to guides to editing this wiki

 * MediaWiki guide (e.g. navigation, editing, deleting pages, blocking users)
 * Miraheze FAQ
 * Request settings changes on your wiki. (Extensions and Logo/Favicon changes should be done through Special:ManageWiki on your wiki.

Miraheze is a free wiki hosting service that is hosting this wiki for us. They can provide free advice here

 * On our own Miraheze wiki
 * On Phabricator
 * On Discord
 * On IRC in #miraheze on irc.libera.chat ([ircs://irc.libera.chat:6697/#miraheze direct link]; webchat)